[Info-vax] Internationalization

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-01-01 kl. 20:02, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
> On 1/1/19 11:21 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2019-01-01 kl. 01:10, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
>>> On 12/31/18 7:01 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Same reasons as today to not use VMS. A new HW platform doesn't
>>>> change much for those that do not want to stay on VMS anyway.
>>>
>>> But if your customer is already on VMS maybe the question
>>> should be why did they choose VMS in the first place.
>>
>> Why they choose that VAX 11/750 in 1982-83?
>> It was probably a logical decision at the time.
> 
> Based on what?

Does it matter *now*? Isn't it enough to know that it was the
logical decision to make at that time? Besides, I have only been
there for the last 12 years, so I was not part of it. This was
35+ years ago.

And besides, the fact that we still are running some of the same
source codes (some unchanged) from the time of the port to the
11/750, says me that the decision was not that bad.

Had we still been on a Pr1me system, if they had gone that
path in the beginning of the 80s?

> At that time Pr1me was still going strong
> and beat DEC in every benchmark I ever saw.

There are a lot of cars beating my Chrysler Voyager, none of them
would be the right car for me anyway.

Leave it, your efforts to beat something out of this is just silly.

> There were
> others as well, depending on what you were planning on
> doing.
> 
> bill
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